Michelangelo Date

Michelangelo: Information Born in Caprese –“Son of Florence” Born: March 6th, 1475 Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni Italian Renaissance –Painter, sculptor, architect and poet Considered master of representing the human body

Early Life: Family Information Comes from a family of bankers One of 5 sons Father was in government Mother died when he was young –Afterwards, lived with a stonecutter and his wife and family in Settignano –Strong influence on sculpture Affinity for the arts –“Artists are laborers, no better than shoemakers.”

Early Life: School Father sent him to study grammar At 13, he apprenticed to Domenico Ghirlandaio –Learned “fresco” At 14, studied sculpture at the Medici garden –Ruler of Florence –Joined famiglia Began getting commissions Domenico Ghirlandaio

Began studying anatomy –Corpses Created the Wooden Crucifix

Professional Life: Battle of the Centaurs Earliest sculpture at 17 Simple, solid forms Squarish proportion of figures

Rome Medici died in 1492 –Fell from power Found his way to Rome Bacchus –God of wine –Earliest surviving large- scale sculpture –Viewed from all sides

Firenze Most talented sculptor of central Italia David –Heroic courage –Piazza della Signoria t/us/florence/michelang elo_david.htmhttp:// t/us/florence/michelang elo_david.htm David

Sistine Chapel Commissioned by Pope Julius II –Repaint the ceiling Hesitant at first

Sistine Chapel: Content Prophets Dramatic Original framing system 9 stories from Genesis Separation of Light and Darkness

"After four tortured years, more than 400 over life-sized figures, I felt as old and as weary as Jeremiah. I was only 37, yet friends did not recognize the old man I had become."

Last Judgment End wall of Sistine Chapel –Directed by Christ –Largest fresco Angels pushing damned down and pulling saved up from hell

Issues Target of criticism –”It was mostly disgraceful that in so sacred a place there should have been depicted all those nude figures, exposing themselves so shamefully, and that it was no work for a papal chapel but rather for the public baths and taverns." Retaliation –Biaggio (Master of Ceremonies) Draperies added

Final Works Devoted himself to architecture and poetry Created two pietas (both unfinished) 1)Rondanini Pieta 2)For his own tomb Rondanini Pieta

Michelangelo Art originates from inner inspiration and culture –Masculinity Saw nature as an enemy Solitary/melancholy Bisexual –Poetry –Vittoria Colonna

His Death Died: February 18, 1564 –89 Years Old Fever Will –Soul to God –Body to Earth –Material possessions to his nearest relations Buried in Florence –“Father and master of all the arts”